seek for
seek for verb: to try to find or attain; to seek.
Verb
seek for (third-person singular simple present seeks for, present participle seeking for, simple past and past participle sought for)
- To try to find or attain; to seek.
- Any one who doubts the quality of the sport found by those fishermen who seek for their Sunday victims in the North River should have strolled along its bank yesterday above One Hundredth-street.1889, “LOTS OF FISH CAUGHT.; CROWDS OF FISHERMEN ALONG THE NORTH RIVER AND AT CITY ISLAND.”, in The New York Times
- I had been out all day trudging from one newspaper office to another, seeking for work and finding none.1895, Marie Corelli, The Sorrows of Satan: or The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire […], 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, published...
seek for meaning in Sanskrit
seek for in Sanskrit
- to seek for, investigate, search through
- चि ci
- to seek for
- चिकेति cikéti
Forms of seek for
| third-person singular present | seeks for |
|---|---|
| present participle | seeking for |
| past participle | sought for |
| past | sought for |
Questions about seek for
- What does seek for mean?
- Seek for means to try to find or attain; to seek.
- What is seek for in Sanskrit?
- Seek for in Sanskrit is चि (ci), चिकेति (cikéti). See Seek for meaning in Sanskrit.
- What part of speech is seek for?
- Seek for is a verb.
- What is the past tense of seek for?
- The past tense of seek for is sought for.
Words near seek for in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: seek for (page history and authors); चि (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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